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Chapter V: Section 1: Engineers and firemen taking light engines over the

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road, or dead-heading over the road on company business, will be
paid passenger rates; and where light engines are taken over the
road, a flagman is to be furnished.

In case engineers or firemen are to attend court, or on any company
business, engineers to receive four dollars per day and expenses,
and firemen two dollars and forty cents per day and expenses.

SEC. 2. That no engineer or fireman be required to pull any train
without a conductor, or a man to take charge of said train.

_Article XIII._

Engineers and firemen will run, first in, first out, and, as far as
practicable, on their respective divisions; and where engines are
pooled, not to be governed by train department.

_Article XIV._

Rights to regular runs, when ability is equal, will be governed by
seniority. Engineers and firemen having regular runs up to the
Agreement of 1886 will not be affected by this Article.

_Article XV._

No more extra engineers or firemen will be assigned than is
necessary to move the traffic with promptness and dispatch, and
should any engineer or fireman feel himself aggrieved by the
assignment of too many men, he can proceed as in Article I, but
will receive no pay for loss of time.

Galesburg Division engineers and firemen will not be required to
run east of Aurora.

_Article XVI._

No road engineer or fireman will be expected to do regular yard
work at terminal stations. In the event of their being called upon
to do said work, the engineer shall receive forty (40) cents per
hour, and the fireman twenty-four (24) cents per hour.

_Article XVII._

No fines shall be assessed against engineers or firemen.

_Article XVIII._

That engineers and firemen and their families be given
transportation when applied for, and that some arrangement be made
to pass Brotherhood men over the road.

_Article XIX._

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